• Job Description

  Req#: 2500055D

  Engineering Preferred

  What we need:

  Environmental Specialist 2

  What we do:

  At the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, our primary goal is to protect the environment and public health. We do this by ensuring compliance with federal and state environmental laws.

  What we need YOU to do:

  The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to join our team as an environmental specialist with the Division of Drinking and Ground Waters (DDAGW) at our Southwest District Office in Dayton.

  You’ll help us maintain safe drinking water. Cool, right?

  As a valued DDAGW team member, you’ll perform technical reviews of engineering and construction plans for new public water systems (PWS) and determine plan and project viability based on your findings.

  You’ll inspect and evaluate PWS facilities for compliance with state and federal regulations. When necessary, you’ll initiate enforcement actions for any remedial and/or corrective actions required of a PWS to bring it back into compliance.

  On the customer side, you’ll review and evaluate public notice requirements set by the Ohio Public Water System and investigate drinking water complaints reported by the public and government agencies.

  Let’s run it back.

  · Perform technical review of engineering and construction plans for new public water systems (PWS).

  · Inspect and evaluate PWS to determine compliance with state and federal water quality regulations.

  · Investigate public complaints about drinking water quality and service.

  · Coordinate enforcement and correction actions required of PWS to regain compliance with regulations.

  Don’t let this opportunity go down the drain! Apply today!

  
  
  

  4 yrs. trg. or 4 yrs. exp. in position involving geology or hydrology, engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science &/or other comparable physical or health science field, earth science &/or urban & regional planning, experience must be commensurate with duties to be assigned.
  
  -Or baccalaureate degree in engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science, earth science &/or urban & regional planning, geology or other comparable physical or health science field.
  
  -Or positions involved in providing financial, technical & administrative assistance for planning, design & implementation of environmental infrastructure & pollution abatement, & prevention projects, applicants must have completed undergraduate core coursework in business/public administration, public relations/marketing, political science or communications, or have 4 yrs. exp. in position involving public contact to explain policies, procedures & programs of agency, writing of promotional &/or explanatory publications & materials, budgeting, contract administration & working with others on team projects. Note: For all positions engaged in field work, applicants must be able to provide own transportation. New employees in EPA's solid waste program, excluding those in the solid waste planning unit, must obtain a sanitarian-in-training certificate during their probationary period.
  
  -Or 12 mos. exp. as Environmental Specialist 1, 85861.
  
  -Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications For Employment noted above.
  
  Job Skills: Environmental Services, Engineering Professional Skills: Customer Focus, Attention to Detail, and Critical Thinker.

• About the company

  Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated.

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